And with smarte scourges beoten him sore : and maden him many a wounde.
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þis holie man stod euere stille : he ne grochchede nouȝt ene,
Ake euere he cride "god, þin ore!" : and non oþur he nolde him mene.
So þat þis luþere tormentores : þat beoten him so sore,
þouȝten þat [al. þei] huy him schame duden : and [al. om.] hov huy miȝten don him more.
huy benden heore bouwene and stoden a-feor : and heore Arewene riȝten :
Ase to ane marke huy schoten to him : ase euene ase huy miȝten.
þe Arewene stikeden on him ful þicke : and al is bodi to-drowe;
And euere stod þis holie man : riȝt stille, ase þei he lowe.
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Ase ful ase is an Irchepil : of piles al-a-boute,
So ful he stikede of Arewene : with-Inne and with-oute,
So ful, þat in none stude : on Arewe ne miȝte In wende
bote he for-korue some oþure : more is bodi to rende.
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Ase þe holie man i-Martred was : seint sebastian,
Also huy serueden is holie bodi : and schoten þane holie man,
þat euerech pece fram oþur fleu : þat wonder was of is liue.
And euere he stod ase him no rouȝte : and cride on god wel bliue.
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þo hynguar i-saiȝ þat huy ne miȝten : þare-with ouer-come him nouȝt,
A-non he let is heued of smyte : þat he were of liue i-brouȝt.
Ase þis holie man is beden bad : a man smot of is heued;
And [al. ac] is bodi was [al. was er] al-to-rend : and nouȝt i-hol bi-leued.
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And for it was so al-to-drawe : huy leten it ligge þere.
Ake, for men ne scholden nouȝt finde is heued : forth with heom huy it bere
Into þe wode of Eglesdone : ane [MS. ane ane] derne stude huy founde :
A-mong þicke þornes huy it casten : and hudden it in þe grounde.
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þo heo hadden of þis holie kyng : al heore wille þere,
glade and bliþe huy wenden forth : luþere Men ase it were.
þat heued huy hudden derneliche : þat no cristine man ne come,
Ȝif þat þare ani bi-lefte a-lyue : and with him þannes it nome. [folio 132]
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A wilde wolf þare cam sone : and to þe heuede he drovȝ,
And þare oppe he lai and wuste it faste : a-ȝein is kuynde i-nouvȝ—
For is kuynde were more to for-swolewen it— : and lickede [MS. lickeden] it ofte and custe,
